Beef Empanada

Empanada is a Latin snack food that is really a stuffed savoury pastry. We have baked ours and used filo as it is a little healthier but you can use puff or shortcut pastry if you like.

Ingredients

• 250g lean beef mince
• 1 tsp. paprika
• 2 tsp. garlic, crushed
• 1 onion, diced
• 3/4 cup peas & corn, frozen
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 tbsp. tomato paste
• 1 tsp. cumin, ground
• 1 tsp. oregano
• Pinch chilli (or chilli paste)
• 2 tsp. brown sugar
• 1 tbsp. olive oil
• Filo Pastry
• Cooking spray

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180C.
2. Heat olive oil in non-stick fry pan on medium heat and cook onion until softened.  Add beef and stir fry until browned.  Add garlic, cumin, paprika, oregano, chilli and cook a further minute or two.
3. Add water tomato paste and sugar, stir frying.  Turn off heat adding the peas and corn, mix in.
4. Lay out 2 sheets of filo pastry onto bench; spray a little olive oil between each sheet. Cut sheet into 3-4 length ways.  Place 1-2 spoonful’s of beef mixture at the top of one of the sheet. Starting at the top of the pastry and fold the sheet to the right to form a triangle then left, keeping a triangular shape.  Continue folding until you get to the end.
5. Place triangles onto an oven tray lined with baking paper.  Spray the top with a little cooking spray and bake for 15 mins in oven.
6. Serve with sweet chilli sauce.